Kapkirk
Prominent Member
Purchased the Debut Pro Turntable last week (with Pick it Pro cartridge based on the 2M series cartridge) and am finding the bass very weak, I have to invoke the tone controls on my amp and turn the bass control up to the 3 o'clock position to get anything that resembles bass and with it like that the sound is just muddy with no definition. I'm not a bass head, just want to hear what's going on with bass guitars & kick drum etc. Project describes the sound from the PickIt Pro cartridge as dynamic and robust, that's not what I am getting.
I have it connected directly to my Denon PMA1600NE amp's phono input, everything else in the frequency range sounds superb, the top end and mids are super clean and detailed without any edginess like reported on the 2M red (the Pick-it pro stylus is actually a lot better than I expected) but bass response is very poor.
I have already tried another Phono preamp, a Project phono box MM that I had laying about (no difference) and the sound was actually WORSE than on the Denon Phono stage.
Bass is full and detailed from my digital sources -Node 3 and Sony CDP and from TV when using source Direct, so I assume the amp is not the issue.
I have it connected directly to my Denon PMA1600NE amp's phono input, everything else in the frequency range sounds superb, the top end and mids are super clean and detailed without any edginess like reported on the 2M red (the Pick-it pro stylus is actually a lot better than I expected) but bass response is very poor.
I have already tried another Phono preamp, a Project phono box MM that I had laying about (no difference) and the sound was actually WORSE than on the Denon Phono stage.
Bass is full and detailed from my digital sources -Node 3 and Sony CDP and from TV when using source Direct, so I assume the amp is not the issue.